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As a guitar player you have probably trawled the internet looking for guitar lessons. Whether or not you want to learn to play guitar for free, your vision probably involved learning songs form tabs as well as getting as much theory and technique exercises you can handle.

Ten years ago a guy named Jon Broderick went looking for websites featuring high quality guitar lessons and, the legend goes, he had so little success, he went and made his own. The outcome was Guitar Tricks, another site that gives you access to their lessons in return for a monthly subscription. Not unlike Jamplay, but Guitar Tricks has been collecting guitar lessons for ten years, plus they have a collection of twenty-four free guitar lessons that you can try. Your free lessons are of the same quality as the lessons you get with your monthly subscription, taught by the same teachers who conduct the lessons for subscribers to Guitar Tricks.



These days four-hundred thousand guitarists take advantage of Guitar Tricks' lessons each month. And no wonder, because there are lessons in any genre you could name - acoustic, rock, metal, country, classical, jazz . . . and you can take lessons in special areas like chords, sound effects, harmonics, bottleneck, popping and guitar tricks. If you are not clear on whether your favorite guitar style has a name, you can simply request lessons based on the music of particular guitar players like Chet Atkins, Duane Allman, Stanley Jordan, Andres Segovia or Jimmy Page.

Your membership of Guitar Tricks gets you full access to a buttload of tutorials, sheet music, video lessons and backing tracks. Not only do you get the benefit of the Guitar Tricks guys' years of archiving guitar lessons but their content is updated every day.

One resource for beginner guitar players I'm always recommending is the collective expertise that you can find in guitar forums. Guitar Tricks has a forum that holds the records of questions and answers between thousands of guitarists. Would you believe there's over two-hundred thousand posts? And not only that, you can also have feedback from the Guitar Tricks teachers on any nagging question your brain can formulate.

Electric Guitar Tabs Explained

Posted on | November 1, 2007 |

Tablature is not a dumbed down version of “real” musical notation. It has been a real help to the many people who have taken up the electric guitar and who wanted to get down to the business of playing as quickly as possible.
Tablature as a means of writing music down has been with us for hundreds of years, but many people today look down on tabs as a third rate method of musical communication. Conventional music notation has much more to communicate than tabs, but if you already know more or less how the song sounds, and are prepared to work at your own interpretation, then there’s nothing wrong with using tablature.
Guitarists contributing their tabs to websites have brought a wider range of music within reach of amateur musicians who never learnt musical notation.
Electric guitar tablature introduces an amateur guitar player to a range of music without asking him to learn musical theory that he may feel he can do without. Tablature allows the guitarist to get to know the music in his own time. For that reason tabs are a boon to the electric guitar player.
You can find electric guitar tabs in music stores along with conventional written music, but the simplest and best place to look for electric guitar tabs is on the internet. Many tabs are still available for free, but you need to be able to exercise your discernment when making use of tablature produced by amateur guitarists. You may need to change things around a little if they don’t sound right.
Tablature also allows the guitarist to learn new scales or modes very quickly.
Using electric guitar tabs to learn new material is not a walk in the park - you need to supply some of the information which is written into sheet music. You need to have some idea of the note values and a basic understanding of time signatures and tempo. What that boils down to is that you can hear the music in your head, and you just want to know where to put your fingers on the fret board. That is where guitar tablature can help you.

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